Naming it "Sponsor" would be a lot better. I really like the way LuaJit handles this and I think it's a rather good win-win. Someone gets a feature they want and the open source developer gets some funds to continue doing what they like. Hopefully the developer will say no to features that would take the software in the wrong direction.

Yes, I have. Right click anywhere on slashdot. Select inspect element. Click 3D button on bottom right corner. Welcome to the future!

Posted at "2012-04-01 0:14". First April fools day joke! Keep them coming, always nice to see if you get fooled this year

Just dont get it though GoDaddy or any other US based company or they can probably close down your site anyway.

I got a vertex 3 ssd (500MB/s read/write) drive a week or so ago. This was after I discovered that my motherboard (Asus P6X58D-E) had a SATA3 controller and I though I could actually use the performance. After I got the drive I did quite a bit of performance tests and discover that the Marvel controller they used is indeed slow. At 4kb the drive does 75MB/s write and 82MB/s read. It peaks at 218MB/s write and 304MB/s read. I switched over to the SATA2 Intel controller instead and at 4kb I got 152MB/s write and 146MB/s read. While it peaks at 271MB/s write and 283MB/s read. There is some drivers at Station-Drivers that are a lot newer than the latest that Asus has but from reading around it might or might not work to flash the inbuilt controller using them. There is also no clear benchmark of what any potential gains would be. For now I have stayed away from them.

We can blame Hollywood all we want but the fact is that if they wouldn't make money on it they wouldn't produce it. So its we, the viewers, who go to these crappy sequels that are to blame. As always. Vote with your wallet. Having said that I really hope they would leave Blade Runner alone. Wasn't it enough with the "Extended cut", "Extra cut", "Directors cut","Final cut" they made on the poor movie. I think they make like 10 different versions on that movie. Adding a extra scene for each edition.

Lately all you have heard is the complete opposite. That they are impossible to completely erase so it's unsafe to store company/secure data on them. Because even if you erase the file its still left on the disk and just marked as empty. Now they say they erase them self.

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Not sure what happened when I did the final submit. The link was correct. The real link to this news is at http://www.gremedy.com/purchase.php. The downloads can be found at http://www.gremedy.com/download.php.

Since 'any sufficiently advanced technology will look like magic' question is how Archimedes and all other awesome people like that would like "magic". They could kill you for witchcraft or some other reason in that line of though, they could just not believe you and all you would get is a long pointless argument with the person in question. I doubt that it's known how open minded these people where. Could they accept new ideas or where they just too into their own way of though?

Only in a small African country called Lesotho is more rapes reported than in Sweden. http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article7581764.ab (In swedish but number are universal) Rape reports per 100000 citizens (From 2008) Lesotho: 91,6, Sweden: 53,2, USA: 28,6, Zimbabwe: 25,6, Norway: 19,8 Israel: 17,6

Bring up the task manager. On the "Performance" tab select "Resource Monitor..." go to the "Memory" tab. There you will see what the memory is used for and you can see that "standby" memory is not reported as used if you check the task bar. A tip is also to just hover the mouse over the colored bar to see what that memory is used for in more detail.

I wonder if they are going all the way in this so we will get a 'Hot donut' section in The Simpsons game? Homer getting freaky with his favorit donut and a good 'adult only' rating.